Absolute monarchy actualizes rather than contradicts social-pattern theory

Evidence

That the state, in turn, found its practical effectiveness in the form of an ultimate personality, the absolute ruler, is hardly a counterinstance to the fundamental pattern; indeed, the pattern is actualized in just this manner, both diachronically and synchronically, in an extraordinarily large number of cases. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 669

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: European absolute monarchies emerged from the suppression of feudal nobility — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2042; Economic-reductionist cultural theory stays trapped at an epochal level of abstraction; Rousseau’s general-will system inevitably yields totalitarianism — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2535 (+4 more)

Related

• European absolute monarchies emerged from the suppression of feudal nobility (similarity 0.82)
• Rousseau’s general-will system inevitably yields totalitarianism (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Power cannot self-realize but depends on societal-structural conditions for legitimacy #corroborates (0.80)
• European absolute monarchies emerged from the suppression of feudal nobility #expands (0.70) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2042
• Economic-reductionist cultural theory stays trapped at an epochal level of abstraction #qualifies (0.40)